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Play: muddy bikes, climbing. Work: computers. He/him.
@mikerspencer You done much MTB in the Tweed valley? Only been once but it was great. And steeeep!
@mikerspencer that Mercian is so handsome.
Whoever came up with the system “if you don’t allocate all of your yearly budget, your budget will be smaller next year” is responsible for so much human misery and wasted money
From "your OS must enable you to declare your age" to "developers must attempt to verify your age" to "you must declare your age" to "you must prove your age" to "you must verify your identity to go online" in how long?
@sarahdalgulls if I tap at a location in the OS app I can get a BNG reference e.g. SK 08312 91124?

We are thrilled to share that the University of Cambridge has secured a major £36 million government investment to expand our Dawn AI Research Resource supercomputer — increasing its capacity sixfold by spring 2026. This significant boost will unlock cutting-edge AI computing power for researchers and start-ups across the UK.

👉 https://bit.ly/4qZif9j

Government funding boost for Cambridge supercomputer

•    £36 million investment to increase the AI Research Resource supercomputing capacity at Cambridge sixfold by spring 2026. •   More cutting-edge AI chips

University of Cambridge
@fclc Accelerators that are based on RISC-V? Either way, looking forward to the talk.
My first PR against #fedora was merged today. Which is nice.

Whenever I see a “rice my Arch #Linux w/hyprland” video, I’m like:

You think that’s badass? You should’ve tried getting X11 running on a Linux machine in the mid-90s. You needed your monitor & video card manuals & a calculator (seriously) so you could calculate “modelines” for your X11 config file.

If you got the math wrong you’d fry your monitor by driving it at too high a frequency (back then nearly all monitors were fixed-frequency).

Typing “startx” for the first time was *so* stressful.

@rachel out of curiosity what are you using? I've had some success with https://smallstep.com/docs/step-ca/ before.
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